Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Light Judgment. In Philadelphia, a burglar who figured that a darkened house was a sign of vacancy, was pinned in the pitch blackness by Joseph Zeleznock, 37, who learned to wrestle at the Overbrook School for the Blind...
...Dunciad, Alexander Pope's genius and malice made Colley Cibber memorable ; in The Vision of Judgment, Byron made Southey immortal. But if the name of Victor Purcell-or Myra Buttle-is remembered in a hundred years it will be for the fact that he threw a dead cat at a living poet. Before The Sweeniad nears its inevitable conclusion ("This is the way that Sweeney ends. Not with a curse but a mutter"), the satire has fallen heavily among the bric-a-brac...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff, capable, low-pressure General Nathan Farragut Twining, that the U.S. is behind Russia in long-range missiles and must "get on the move" to catch up. But "It is important that we realize, at home and abroad, that we are not-today-in my judgment, in a position of inferior military strength vis-á-vis the Soviet Union . . . Such a misapprehension could lead to fatal compromises in connection with disarmament negotiations and could lead to other retreats in the foreign policy fields-worldwide-which would eventually destroy our security...
...answer: "I don't know anything about it.") The other was whether he planned to meet and discuss racial problems with New York's Negro Representative Adam Clayton Powell. (Answer: "I will have to look this one up.") In fact, Jim Hagerty's news judgment, as evidenced by his briefing, may have been better than the reporters': they asked no questions in the headline-making field of U.S. missile progress, for which Hagerty and Ike were thoroughly prepared...
...Hear." Such judgment, backed by meticulous attention to detail, has made New Yorker Jim Hagerty by every standard the best-and most powerful-White House press secretary in U.S. history. Day in, day out, year in, year out, between presidential speeches and press conferences, during Eisenhower vacations and Eisenhower illnesses, Hagerty is the authentic voice of the White House and, to an extent rarely recognized, of the whole Administration...